On Thu 19-12-24 08:08:44, Michal Hocko wrote: > All that being said, the message I wanted to get through is that atomic > (NOWAIT) charges could be trully reentrant if the stock local lock uses > trylock. We do not need a dedicated gfp flag for that now. And I want to add. Not only we can achieve that, I also think this is desirable because for !RT this will be no functional change and for RT it makes more sense to simply do deterministic (albeit more costly page_counter update) than spin over a lock to use the batch (or learn the batch cannot be used). -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs